Qualcomm Ups the Mobile AnteBlog 11/21/2013 10 commentsMobile processor leader Qualcomm used its analyst day to rev its product line, upping the ante on competitors angling for the hot smartphone market.

Chat With Presidential Fellows on IoTBlog 11/18/2013 8 commentsThis Friday EE Times is hosting a Twitter chat on the Internet of Things with two veteran entrepreneurs and US Presidential Innovation Fellows behind the Smart America Challenge.

Sony PS4 Goes Monolithic, Says ChipworksSlideshow 11/15/2013 17 commentsThe PS4 uses a single die CPU/GPU and one main shared 8GB memory array. We therefore expected to see a single die under the main processor package, with no separate DRAM die in package, and no embedded DRAM on the main die. This is indeed what we have found. A huge monolithic die of 20 x 20mm.

EE Times Community Weighs In on Toyota CaseNews & Analysis 11/7/2013 27 commentsEE Times readers took Toyota’s unintended acceleration case to heart. After all, Toyota’s failures, pointed out by the expert witnesses, aren’t just Toyota’s problems. Its failures are relevant to all the hard choices engineers make.

Apple iPad Air Packs Faster A7News & Analysis 11/1/2013 13 commentsEarly teardown results suggest a slightly faster A7 in the Apple iPad Air than in the iPhone 5 but few other surprises, according to Chipworks and iFixit.